Conference paper

Political Change: Issues of the Approach

Dag Strpić ; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

In classical political and politico-economical theory, the opposition of the traditional and modern is set in the very conception of political and social bodies in motion, and in their change power - versus antique and medieval conception. In contemporary science, as it is surveyed in this study, the political "duration" and "change" are the key mediation point of whole development of change. They are often treated modernizationally, instead as a transformation of a genuine polity. This is a significant political action and its complex strategy. Strategy of change and development of a polity must include "choice" in evaluations of its proper state and the state of its reffering environment, of their predictable internal and external changes, of various options and their alternative internal and external changes, of various options and their alternative potential development scenarios in crossing. It is a combination of prospective history of the complex societal change and development, and of an implementation of its own meaning of action. This combination must be founded in focused specialist analysis of comparative politico-economic processes whose foundation is in theories of national and world systems, and in general political and politico-economic theory. In a Schumpeterian equilibrium and disequilibrium relation of development of the politico-economic system, a permanent unexpected penetration of "practical action" intensifies the "Hume's fork" of analytical models without a general theory, especially theory of the state. Almond & Pye's theory of political development dissociated itself from the development and from the analysis of an individual political system. Inside political systems boundaries it isolated itself from major sources of real political change and development - instead developing a really politological approach to problems of the polity. Convergent general and special theories in social sciences, with a differentiation in disciplinary scientific approaches - are the necessity of the new political economy as much as theory of complex development and change.

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Hrčak ID:

111391

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/111391

Publication date:

1.9.1993.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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